The Hammer MMA Radio

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The Hammer MMA Radio. In depth reviews, previews, news and analysis of mixed martial arts, including the UFC, Bellator and Strikeforce.
Tune in to hear our fight picks, fighters to watch, and commentary on the hottest topics in MMA.

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The Hammer MMA Radio - Episode 235

UFC 184: Rousey vs. Zingano is coming up this Saturday night, and is the first UFC event to feature women fighting in both the main event and the co-main event position. We spend roughly the first half of this week's episode breaking down all of...

Stand And Bang Radio's Aaron Robbins joins us again to preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Bigfoot vs. Mir event, as well as to recap all of the happenings from last weekend's UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. Thatch.
Afterwards we continue our Titan...

This Valentine's Day, former UFC Lightweight Champion "Smooth" Ben Henderson moves up to Welterweight to face rising star Brandon Thatch. On this episode we preview all of the fights on February 14th's UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. Thatch...

Rob is joined by Fightland contributer Shawn Smith for an extended preview of World Series Of Fighting 18: Moraes vs. HillThe two break down all of the fights, including a great Bantamweight Championship fight between Marlon Moraes and undefeated...

Last weekend's UFC 183: Silva vs. Diaz was a wildly entertaining and successful event. Unfortunately, since their fight it has come out that both Anderson Silva and Nick Diaz have failed drug tests. On this week's episode we discuss all of the...

This week host Rob Veevers is joined by Josh Hill, the former Ultimate Fighter contestant, and current World Series of Fighting title contender. Josh will be facing Marlon Moraes for the WSOF Bantamweight Championship on the main event of WSOF 18...

The UFC returns to Sweden this Saturday for UFC On Fox: Gustafsson vs. Johnson. We begin by previewing all of the fights on the card, including the main event Light Heavyweight title eliminator between Alexander Gustafsson and Anthony "Rumble"...

On this week's show host Rob Veevers welcomes Battlefield Fight League Featherweight Jeremy Kennedy, who will be facing Mario Pereira for the Featherweight title on January 24th.
Rob also runs down the rest of that card, as well as the January 30th,...

UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs. Siver is coming up this Sunday night, and We're back live in studio to break down all of the fights including the Conor McGregor vs. Dennis Siver main event, and the Donald Cerrone vs. Ben Henderson co-main event.
We...

Rob Veevers is back discussing all of the news in Canadian MMA. This week he takes a look at upcoming Battlefield Fight League, Hard Knocks fight cards, the future of Maximum Fighting Championships, the return of New Brunswick MMA.
Also, even...

The news of UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones failing an out of competition drug test for cocaine broke right in the middle of broadcasting this week's episode.
So in addition to recapping the massive main event of last Saturday night's...

This week, host Rob Veevers is joined by World Series of Fighting COO Darren Owens to discuss recent developments with WSOF, the best moments of 2014, as well as the promotion's plans for Canada in 2015Afterwards, Rob takes a look forward at what else...

The biggest UFC event of 2015 appears to be taking place during the very first week, as UFC 182: Jones vs. Cormier is coming up on Saturday, January 3rd. Jon Jones vs. Daniel Cormier for the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship has everyone...

This week is The Hammer MMA Radio's Fifth Annual Awards Show. As usual we debate 2014's Best Fight, Best Knockout, Best Submission, and many more.
There is also a ton of MMA news including Rampage Jackson returning to the UFC, unfortunate...

It was looking like a quiet fight week, right up until a handful of current and former UFC fighters announced a Class Action Lawsuit against the UFC this past Tuesday. While it's still early in the process, we spend the first part of this week's show...

Rob is joined this week by Canadian fighter "The Savage" Nick Hrabec, who will be facing Liam McGowan this weekend on December 19th, at Unified Fighting 21 in Edmonton.
In additional to the Unified MMA event, later in the show Rob also previews this...

This week we have UFC fighter Robert Whiteford on the show and he came to speak his mind. This is a fun one, so put the kids to bed and turn the volume down at work. We also invite a special co-host, Jade Elizabeth Morris, from the UK's Bay...

So it's a pretty busy week in the MMA world. This episode we preview both of the weekend's upcoming UFC events, The Ultimate Fighter 20 Finale, and UFC On Fox: Dos Santos vs. Miocic.
Then we take a look back at last weekend's excellent UFC 181:...

This week on Stand and Bang Radio we are joined by UFC fighters Colby Covington from American Top Team, and Mike Rhodes from Roufusport.
Colby gives us a review on his last fight, where he hopes to go in the UFC, and officially calls out CM...

This week Rob is joined by Canadian Welterweight MMA fighter Matt MacGrath, who is currently on a five fight winning streak.
Also, stick around until the end of the show as well for a quick discussion about the completely non-Canadian MMA news story...

UFC 181: Hendricks vs. Lawler 2 is this weekend featuring Johny Hendricks vs. Robbie Lawler for the UFC Welterweight Championship, and Anthony Pettis vs. Gilbert Melendez for the UFC Lightweight Championship. This looks to be one of the most exciting...

This week Rob is joined by Lightweight fighter Jose Rodrigeuz to discuss Jose's upcoming Havoc FC fight on December 19th against Derek Boyle.
Afterwards Rob takes a look at some of the recent MMA news including the already controversial...

The Hammer MMA is hosting a brand new show. On the first episode of Stand and Bang Radio we welcome Bellator fighters Liam McGeary and Linton "The Swarm" Vassell, both of whom will be part of the British Invasion event at Bellator 133.
Liam is...

As it's a rare weekend with no upcoming UFC or Bellator events, we spend some time this episode discussing the current state of the major MMA promotions. We touch on the growing competition between UFC and Bellator, the volume and presentation...

Following last weekend's UFC 180: Werdum vs. Hunt, the UFC has a new Interim Heavyweight Champion. We discuss Fabricio Werdum's big win in front of a huge crowd in Mexico, as well as how the rest of the fights on a pretty solid card went down.
We...

We have a packed show this week with UFC 180: Werdum vs. Hunt, Bellator 131: Ortiz vs. Bonnar, and World Series of Fighting 15 all taking place on Saturday November 15th, and we preview all of the major fights across all three events.
Also later in...

Rob is joined this week by Canadian Women's Strawweight Kara Kirsh, who will be fighting Katie Howard at Hard Knocks FC 39 in Calgary this coming weekend.
Following that is a recap of last weekend's Hybrid Pro Series 2 which took place...

It's yet another weekend with two UFC cards within 24 hours. First up is UFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs. Bisping from Australia, followed the next day by UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. St. Preux, airing live from Brazil. We've brought in guest host...

This week Rob is joined on-air by Yohann Dagenais to discuss Hybrid Pro Series 2 coming up on November 15th in Gatineau Quebec.
Later in the show we take a look at the Titan FC event from last weekend, particularly regarding the last-minute...

With no UFC event coming up this weekend, we have time to look back at last weekend UFC 179: Aldo vs. Mendes 2 card in detail, including what may be next for Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo.We also take a look at the upcoming all-women Invicta FC 9...

Rob is joined this week by Pat Wilson, the CEO of Ryse Management to discuss Michael Imperato's hiring and subsequent release from the UFC.
Also during the show we take a look at Excessive Fight Force event from Alberta, the possibility of...

This week we are joined in studio by UFC Middleweight and The Ultimate Fighter: Nations winner Elias "The Spartan" Theodorou. Elias dropped in to talk about his fight a couple of weeks back at UFC Halifax, and when we may see him back in the...

It's the 25th episode of The Hammer MMA Canada, and Rob has two guests join him this week. First up is Canadian MMA journalist Carlin Bardsley to discuss the results of last Saturday's Provincial Fighting Championships 3 event from London, Ontario....

This week we are joined by The Ultimate Fighter 20 competitor Randa Markos, who tells us about her quest to become the first UFC Women's Strawweight Champion, and the many obstacles that she has faced to get to where she is today.
Later in the show...

Rob is joined this week by Adam McEachern, owner of Martial Law Clothing, to discuss the MMA apparel industry in Ontario.
Afterwards there's a recap of last weekend's World Series of Fighting 14: Ford vs. Shields from Edmonton, as well as a look at...

This week's guest on The Hammer MMA Canada is WSOF Light Heavyweight Luke Harris, who will be facing Jared Hamman this weekend in a main card fight at World Series of Fighting 14: Ford vs. Shields, airing live from Edmonton.
After his talk with Luke,...

We're back from Halifax following UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Saffiedine. We recap all of the fights from that night and also have post-fight interviews with many of the winners from that card, including Daron Cruickshank, Olivier...

We are still in Halifax covering UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Saffiedine, and it's the second of two episodes full of pre-fight interviews with many of the fighters competing on that event.This episode we speak with main event opponents Rory...

We are on the road in Halifax covering UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Saffiedine, and it's the first of two episodes full of pre-fight interviews with many of the fighters competing on that event.This episode we speak with co-main event opponents...

This week Rob Veevers is joined by Fightland's Shawn Smith to preview some of this coming weekend's non-UFC Canadian fight cards.
The guys run down MFC 41 in Edmonton taking place October 3rd, 2014, as well as the HKFC show out of Calgary on the same...

We're on the way to Halifax to cover the first ever UFC event in Eastern Canada, UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Saffiedine. Since we will be on the road, this week's episode is up a couple of days early. UFC Fight Night: Nelson vs. Story from...

Our co-host this week is newly signed WSOF fighter Mike Malott, to talk about his October 11th, 2014 fight against Hakeem Dawodu at World Series Of Fighting 14: Ford vs. Shields. Mike also sticks around to help us preview the pretty stacked UFC...

This week Rob is joined by Mark Drummond prior to his fight against Jarid Bussemakers at Unified MMA 20, on September 26th, 2014 in Edmonton.
There's also King of the Cage Canada and Prestige FC results, including the unfortunate cancellation of last...

All three of our regular hosts are back in studio this week to discuss UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs. Nelson, coming up this Saturday night from Japan. We preview what happens when the irrestible force meets the immovable object, and all of the rest of the...

This week Rob is joined by MMA fighter and Fight Network commentator Robin Black. They discuss Robin's September 19th, 2014 King Of The Cage fight against Adam Bodwell, his excellent web series "5 Rounds", and his recent appearance on Joe Rogan's...

Rob's guest this week is BJJ champion Sergio Cunha, from the Tapout Gym in Burlington Ontario. They discuss working with some of the best MMA fighters in Canada, as well as running a successful MMA gym.
There's also a look at the full lineup of...

This week we are joined by Last Word On Sports writer Aaron Robbins to discuss roughly one million recent MMA events. First up we preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Bigfoot vs. Arlovski show from Brazil.
Following that we look...

This week Rob is joined by Steve Jeffery, host of the regular weekly edition of The Hammer MMA Radio. They discuss the breaking news of the unfortunate injury to Josh Hill that took him out of the Bantamweight Championship match at next week's World...

Due to a live scheduling issue this week's episode is up a few days early. It's also a longer show than usual and the first half covers the results of this past weekend's cursed, but actually pretty solid, UFC 177: Dillashaw vs. Soto Pay Per...

UFC 177: Dillashaw vs. Barao 2 takes place this Saturday night. We preview the high-level main event rematch, as well as some of the more interesting fights to look out for on the less than hyped card.
Then we run down the week's news including the...

This week Rob's joined by Marc-Andre Drolet to talk about his upcoming Winnipeg event, King of the Cage: Madness on September 19th. Joe Doerkson vs. Tony Lopez headlines that card.
There's also the latest on upcoming the upcoming Canadian fight...

There are two UFC events this coming Saturday. The first is UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs. Le from Macau, China. It starts at about 6am if you have Fight Pass and are a morning person. Then there's UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. Dos Anjos...

This week Rob is joined by Woodbridge Ontario fighter Alex Ricci to discuss his lightweight fight with Darrell Horcher on August 23rd at CFFC 40.Afterwards Rob runs down the next month or so in Canadian MMA events.
Listen live Wednesday nights at...

Following weeks of mainstream hype, the Jon Jones vs. Daniel Cormier fight at UFC 178 has been delayed until 2015. We spend some time figuring out what impact this will have on the next few UFC cards (and it doesn't look good). There's also a bunch of...

Rob's guest this week is 8-2 Burlington Ontario current Lightweight Ryan Dickson, who is fighting Avery MCPhatter at King of the Beach on August 23rd in Maine.They discuss changing weight classes, Ryan's World Series of Fighting experience, and...

With last Saturday's ill-fated UFC 176 show cancelled we are left with no UFC cards to discuss this week. That's a rare event these days.
We do have Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier mixing it up at a press conference, and spend the first half of...

This week Rob is joined on-air by Jesse Fox and Ryan Machan of Havoc FC to discuss their next event out of Red Deer, Alberta on September 5th, 2014.There's also some new information on the upcoming World Series of Fighting show in Edmonton including a...

It was a big week in MMA news. Both Nick Diaz and Anderson Silva are returning to the UFC, and they are fighting each other. Also, Jon Jones is arguing with his new opponent Daniel Cormier, Aldo vs. Mendes 2 is still happening, Frankie Edgar may or...

Rob is joined this week by Chris Kelades, coming right off of his win over Adrian Woolley at Extreme Cage Combat 21 in Halifax last weekend. Kelades is currently the ranked as the #2 Flyweight in Canada.
Listen live Wednesday nights at 6:00pm on CFMU...

UFC On Fox 12: Lawler vs. Brown takes place this Saturday night, and obviously we are excited for the potential violence that the main event promises. We spend in the first half of this episode previewing all of the matches on the show.
Then we get...

This week Rob is joined by Jay Peacock, owner of the Fight Planet store in Hamilton, Ontario, as well as the co-host of The MMA Cave.The guys talk about MMA retail, the signature shirt market, the rumor of official UFC uniforms and the state of MMA in...

The Ultimate Fighting Championship returns to Ireland for the first time in five years, for UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs. Brandao. We break down all of the fights and make our predictions on what looks like an action packed event.
We also cover all...

We are joined this week by top Canadian Featherweight Lyndon Whitlock, who will be facing Michael Spoenlein in the main event of Extreme Cage Combat 21 in Halifax on July 26th.Rob also talks about the rest of the fights on that card, the web...

UFC Champions Chris Weidman and Ronda Rousey retained their respective titles last weekend at UFC 175 and we discuss their matches, all of the other fights from that night, Stefan Struve's medical issue, and the event's biggest villain of...

This week on The Hammer MMA Canada, we're joined this week by top Canadian Flyweight Adrian "The Bully" Woolley to discuss his upcoming fight in Halifax on July 26th, at ECC 21.Also, Rob quickly discusses the retirements of BJ Penn and Jens Pulver,...

UFC 175: Weidman vs. Machida is coming up this Saturday night, and in addition to the Middleweight Championship fight, there's also a Ronda Rousey UFC Women's Bantamweight title defense against Alexis Davis. We brought in Bloody Elbow's Karim Zidan to...

Rob is joined this week by one of the busiest guys in the MMA business, Chad Elliott. Chad is the owner of Fighter's Edge Management, and CEO of the Fear The Fighter Training Academy in Kitchener, Ontario. They discuss a ton of...

It's our 200th episode, and this Saturday the UFC is giving us two UFC events on the same day. Is it too late to send one back? Seriously though, there are a bunch of solid fights on UFC Fight Night: Te Huna vs. Marquardt, and UFC Fight...

For the first time since the show started there are no local MMA events to discuss, but Rob is joined in studio by 3-1 Canadian Middleweight fighter Adam Hunter to talk about his current career, and the Canadian MMA scene.Listen live Wednesday nights...

UFC 174: Johnson vs. Bagautinov is in the books and while it wasn't the most exciting event that the UFC has put on over the last couple of months, we have a lot to discuss coming out of it in regards to the Flyweight, Welterweight and Light...

Rob is joined this week by World Series of Fighting Canada fighter, and former The Ultimate Fighter contestant Josh Hill. They discuss Josh's big win last weekend at the WSOF Canada 2 event in Edmonton, as well as training both locally and with the...

The UFC returns to Vancouver this weekend for the first time in years, and we are joined by Dwight Wakabayashi from MMACanada.net to help us preview the entire UFC 174: Johnson vs. Bagautinov card. We also speak with Ryan Jimmo who will be facing...

Pro Fighting Series 3 takes place on Saturday, June 14th in Sarnia, Ontario and Rob is joined in studio by two of the Canadian Lightweights competing that on that card.Lightweights Adam "Maverick" Assenza discusses his co-main event matchup with...

It's a completely stacked show this week, beginning with our preview of UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. Khabilov coming up this Saturday night.
We also have an interview with Rory MacDonald discussing his upcoming co-main event fight...

World Series Of Fighting Canada 2: Loiseau vs. Lewis is coming up this Saturday, and the WSOF Chief Operating Officer Darren Owen is on to talk about all of the big fights that night in Edmonton.
Then Dave Abraham joins Rob to discuss last...

For the first time ever the UFC is running two separate fight cards on the very same day. UFC Fight Night: Munoz vs. Mousasi from Germany, and UFC Fight Night: Miocic vs. Maldondo from Brazil are combining for roughly 12 hours of fights on Saturday,...

This week on The Hammer MMA Canada, Rob Veevers is joined by The Ultimate Fighter Nations fighter Matt DesRoches prior to his fight at the upcoming World Series Of Fighting Canada 2 event on June 7th.
Then there is a deeper look at this Friday...

UFC 173: Barao vs. Dillashaw is coming up and we spend the first half of this episode previewing the entire card, including the Bantamweight Championship main event, the Dan Henderson vs. Daniel Cormier title eliminator, and Robbie Lawler vs. Jake...

All three hosts are back in studio together for another episode discussing the week in basketball, baseball, football and hockey.Find more episodes of The Three Point Convert at Last Word On Sports.
Also, listen to The Hammer MMA Radio Wednesday...

We predicted that UFC Fight Night: Brown vs. Silva would be a night of violence, and it didn't disapoint. Matt Brown had a career defining performance and a possible match of the year contender, and we discuss what's next for "The...

The Hammer MMA Radio is expanding! As UFC, Bellator and World Series Of Fighting continue to promote more international events than ever before, it's been difficult to have airtime on The Hammer MMA Radio to cover the growing Canadian MMA...

UFC Fight Night: Brown vs. Silva is this weekend and on paper there are a lot of opportunities for impressive violence throughout the card. Rob Veevers from Banzuke Athletics joins the show to help us preview them all.
Then we discuss Bellator...

UFC 172: Jones vs. Teixeira is in the books, and Jon "Bones" Jones has yet again successfully defended his UFC Light Heavyweight championship. This episode we discuss the fallout from the main event as well as the rest of the fights on the card.
Then...

Dan "The Doctor" Ryan returns to The Three Point Convert this week, and is joined as always by Jeff Hall to talk the week in NHL, NBA, and MLB. Later in the show, Mike Jeffery also calls in from the road to talk some NFL.Find more episodes of The...

Mike Bohn from USA Today joins us this week to preview the UFC 172: Jones vs. Teixeira card, and to look back on last weekend's UFC On Fox: Werdum vs. Browne main event.
Then in the second half of the show, brand new The Ultimate Fighter...

The Ultimate Fighter Nations Finale weigh-ins have just ended, so this episode we take a few minutes to discuss all of the pushing, shoving and wackiness that ensued.
We also have interviews with the two female fighters on the card, Sarah...

It is our second day in Quebec City for The Ultimate Fighter Nations: Canada vs. Australia Finale, and in this episode we have interviews with all of The Ultimate Fighter Nations contestants who are competing at the event.
In this nearly hour...

The Hammer MMA Radio are in Quebec City for The Ultimate Fighter Nations: Canada vs. Australia Finale, and this is the first of a handful of bonus shows that we'll be recording on location.This episode has pre-fight interviews with all of the...

The Hammer MMA Radio is headed to Quebec City for The Ultimate Fighter Nations: Canada vs. Australia Finale, and this episode is our full preview of all of the fights on the card.
Following that we recap the UFC Fight Night: Abu Dhabi results,...

It's a two man show this week with Dan "The Doctor" Ryan busy saving lives, so Jeff Hall and Mike Jeffery are here to discuss this week in NFL, NHL, NBA, and MLB.Find more episodes of The Three Point Convert at Last Word On Sports.
Also, listen...

After a couple of weeks off, the UFC returns this weekend with UFC Fight Night: Nogueira vs. Nelson from Abu Dhabi. This Fight Pass exclusive show has a handful of intriguing matchups, and we preview the entire card alongside guest host James...

Last week's guest host Jeremy Murray returns and joins Jeff and Mike to discuss the week in baseball, basketball, hockey and football. Plus, Dan "The Doctor" Ryan calls in with a Doctor's Diagnosis segment from the road.Find more episodes of The...

It's rare in 2014 to see the UFC take a couple of weeks off from running events. Nevertheless, there are still The Ultimate Fighter: Nations, World Series of Fighting 9, and weekly Bellator shows to discuss this week.
We also check out some recent...

The Three Point Convert has it's first guest host this week as Jeremy Murray joins regular hosts Jeff Hall and Dan "The Doctor" Ryan to discuss the week in the MLB, NBA, NHL, and NFL.Find more episodes of The Three Point Convert at Last Word On...

UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Henderson went down this past Sunday night from Natal, Brazil, and The Hammer MMA Radio crew were there in the building. On this episode we recap a great night of fights, including post-fight interviews with Jussier...

It is our last episode from Natal, Brazil before UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Henderson takes place, and then we head back home to Canada.
Check out our final thoughts on the fights coming up Sunday night, some recent MMA news, Bellator results, the...

The Hammer MMA Radio has arrived in Natal, Brazil for UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Henderson. We have recorded this show immediately following the UFC Open Workouts.
Stay tuned throughout this episode for interviews with UFC fighters Dan...

Steve and Greg check in from Brazil again, this time previewing the full fight card for the UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Henderson 2 event coming up on March 23rd, 2014.
Listen to us Wednesday nights at 6:30pm on CFMU 93.3 FM, and online at...

This week brings us Shogun vs Henderson 2, a rematch of one of the great fights of all time. And for the first time in the history of the show we have a new Welterweight Champion! We look back at Johny Hendricks vs Robbie Lawler.
Also,...

Our trip through Brazil continues in Manaus, the hometown of UFC Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo.
Tomorrow we fly into the city of Natal for the build-up to UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Henderson. In the meantime we are here discussing the fallout of...

Two-thirds of The Hammer MMA Radio hosts are still in Brazil, and Dave is still co-hosting the show with a few of the guys from Sportsnet. Look for the next episode around mid-week.In the meantime, here is a bonus episode of The Three...

Steve and Greg are on the road in Brazil on the way to UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Henderson. The fight is still about a week away, so this episode has a quick preview of UFC 171, as well as our early first impressions on the MMA culture in...

This episode is preview of the upcoming Welterweight title fight between Johny Hendricks and Robbie Lawler, along with one of the best undercards of the year so far.
Then we review last Saturday's UFC Fight Night: Gustaffson vs. Manuwa event and...

Two-thirds of The Hammer MMA Radio hosts are on the way to Brazil, and Dave will be co-hosting the show with a few of the guys from Sportsnet. Look for the next episode around mid-week.In the meantime, here is another episode of The Three Point...

This episode is up a few days early to recap UFC Fight Night: Kim vs. Hathaway from Macau, that aired at the ridiculous time of 5am. Although it was an online-only Fight Pass event, it may have been the most enjoyable show of 2014 so...

The Hammer MMA Radio hosts were up at 5am to watch UFC Fight Night: Kim vs. Hathaway, live on UFC Fight Pass from Macao. A new episode of The Hammer will be up soon, but in the meantime here is another episode of the general sports podcast The...

UFC 170: Rousey vs. McMann is over, and it was a much needed night of impressive victories and solid knockouts. This episode we recap all of the fights of a card that included amongst other things, early stoppages, late stoppages, fighting...

This week we're joined by Sportsnet.ca's Adam Martin to preview Saturday night's UFC 170: Rousey vs. McMann. For the second time in two months UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey is defending her title, and we preview all of this Saturday...

Due to radio station pre-emptions and polar vortexes, we had to combine two episodes into one this week. The first half is a full preview of the UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Mousasi event coming up next Saturday night.
Then we discuss a ton of...

For a variety of reasons the next episode of The Hammer MMA Radio has been delayed, but will be up tomorrow. In the meantime since people seem to be enjoying it, here's the latest episode of The Three Point Convert sports podcast with hosts Jeff Hall,...

This week we are joined by Sportsnet's James Lynch (@lynchonsports) to help us preview Saturday night's UFC 169: Barao vs. Faber event. We discuss the Bantamweight title fight, Jose Aldo vs. Ricardo Lamas for the Featherweight title, Frank Mir....

The Three Point Convert Podcast will be launching it's own channel soon, but in the meantime here's the latest episode from hosts Jeff Hall, Mike Jeffery, and Dan "The Doctor" Ryan talking this week in Football, Basketball, Baseball and...

After a rare week off we're back previewing this coming Saturday night's UFC On Fox: Henderson vs. Thomson show, as well as recapping a few of the more notable and ludicrous moments from last week's UFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs. Philipou.
Then...

Due to unfortunate technical difficulties and timeslot pre-emptions, The Hammer MMA Radio had to miss this week's episode, but our next show will be up in a few days previewing UFC On Fox: Henderson vs. Thomson.
In the meantime we've uploaded a new...

Last weekend the UFC put on it's first international event using the UFC Fight Pass online subscription service, and we gave it a shot to watch UFC Fight Night: Saffiedine vs. Lim, from Singapore. At 9:00am. It was actually pretty good,...

UFC 168: Weidman vs. Silva is over, and 2014 looks to be a year of young champions and absent legends. Chris Weidman retained the UFC Middleweight title after Anderson Silva's leg shattered during a kick. We discuss the aftermath of that fight, Ronda...

This week's episode is up a few days early due to the holidays, and it's some sort of Christmas miracle that the show even happened. Ice storms and blackouts couldn't quite keep us from previewing next weekend's UFC 168: Silva vs. Weidman, where...

It's the Fourth Annual Hammer Awards episode. As always we choose the winners and losers in eight categories such as Fighter of the Year, Fight of the Year, Submission of the Year and of course Douchebag of the Year.
Before we get to that...

After taking a rare week off, we're back to talk about a busy week of MMA including this upcoming Saturday night's UFC On Fox 9: Johnson vs. Benavidez. Although a few important fights fell through due to injuries, the card is still full of...

Our live broadcast was pre-empted this week, so this is a shorter than usual episode previewing The Ultimate Fighter 18 Finale: Diaz vs. Maynard event. That card features the Men and Women Bantamweight finals, and more female fighters competing than...

The UFC just celebrated their 20th Anniversary with mystery and controversy. UFC 167: St. Pierre vs. Hendricks may have been a great night of fights, but the main event still has everyone scratching their heads days after it ended. We...

UFC 167: St. Pierre vs. Hendricks is coming up next weekend and in addition to the much anticipated Welterweight Championship fight, the event also celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. As this is one of the...

This week we are joined by former UFC Middleweight contender Patrick Cote to talk about his role as a coach on the upcoming Ultimate Fighter: Canada vs. Australia reality show. He give us his thoughts on coaching against Kyle Noke's Australian team,...

We have another packed show this week as we discuss the results of UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Munoz from last weekend, preview the stacked Bellator 106: Chandler vs. Alvarez show coming up on Saturday, and run down some of the bigger recent MMA...

It's another big week of fights between the aftermath of last weekend's UFC 166: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos, and our full card breakdown of this coming Saturday's UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Munoz from England. While those two events take up most...

This week we're previewing UFC 166: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos. Since it's such a big event (including three huge heavyweight fights and the return of Gilbert Melendez) we've brought in Sportsnet.ca's Shawn Smith to help us out. We also have...

As the UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Shields event was airing at exactly the same time as our live broadcast, we had to work with what we had. So we discussed some newly signed fights, the introduction of World Series of Fighting Canada, Ben...

UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Shields takes place at exactly the same time that our live broadcast airs next week so we're previewing the entire card a whole week in advance. Following that we we get into all of the week's news including Michael Bisping's...

We're back from our week in Toronto covering UFC 165: Jones vs. Gustafsson. While we were excited for the show going in, we had no idea that the main event would turn out to be one of the greatest fights in Mixed Martial Arts history.For this entire...

We've been in Toronto all week for the build-up to UFC 165: Jones vs. Gustafsson. In addition to our previous show previewing all of the matches, this is a bonus show now that we've attended the various media events (including a UFC Fit program...

This week's show is up a little bit early because we're on the way to Toronto for the week for UFC 165: Jones vs. Gustafsson. There's a lot for us to discuss between the two title fights, the multiple up-and-comers on huge win streaks, and the...

The Ultimate Fighter Season 18 is in full swing. Ronda Rousey and Meisha Tate are hating each other, women are in the TUF house for the first time, and our hometown fighter Josh Hill is in there too. We discuss what is and isn't working so far this...

This week's episode is up a couple of days early so that we are able to preview the upcoming UFC Fight Night: Texiera vs. Bader, which is the second Wednesday night UFC card in a row.Also we have a detailed recap of last weekend's UFC 164: Henderson...

It's the first of our new longer show format, and we get to preview one hell of a main event for this Saturday night. UFC 164: Henderson vs. Pettis 2 is a rematch of one of our favorite fights of all time, and we spend a ton of time looking at...

It's our last half hour show before moving to a new one-hour format. We probably could have used the extra time this week to cover the aftermath of UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Sonnen, which was one of the best shows of the year, and certainly...

The UFC really knows how to make a first impression. To kick off the brand new Fox Sports 1 Channel this Saturday night, Chael Sonnen, Shogun Rua, Alistair Overeem, Urijah Faber, and a ton of the most exciting young fighters in the company are all...

UFC 163: Aldo vs. Zombie was a more interesting show than expected due to a pair of strange injuries in the main event, a controversial decision against an actual Brazilian in Brazil, and a couple of great knockouts and submissions. On this week's...

UFC 163 is this weekend with The Korean Zombie stepping up to face Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo. It's not the deepest card, but between the exciting title fight and some much needed Flyweight and Women's Bantamweight action, there's a lot for us...

UFC on Fox 8: Johnson vs. Moraga is this Saturday night headlined by a Flyweight Championship fight, and an even more intriguing Rory MacDonald vs. Jake Ellenberger match. In addition we also take an early look at next week's stacked Bellator 97...

The first 30 seconds of this week's show are a real mess. It's worth it though, because with a lack of UFC events for a couple of weeks, we have time to really get into last weekend's Invicta FC 6: Cyborg vs. Coenen show. As always the...

Anderson Silva finally lost his UFC Middleweight title last Saturday night at UFC 162. It was pretty weird. We run down all of the wackiness involved in the crowning of the new UFC Middleweight Champion Chris Weidman, as well as all of the other...

UFC 162: Silva vs. Weidman is this weekend and it's one of the biggest fights of the year. We're really hyped about this main event and we spend a ton of time debating it, as well as previewing all of the rest of the fights on the card.Afterwards we...

It's kind of a random show this week. First we talk a bit about the local Ontario MMA scene including the Substance Combat show coming up this Saturday night in Toronto. Then we recap Bellator 96 from last weekend featuring the revenge of...

It's a double-sized show for our 150th episode, and we start off by recapping the entire UFC 161: Evans vs. Henderson event which only felt like it was twice as long as usual. We also recap World Series of Fighting 3, and preview this week's...

Greg is finally back from Australia, and it's just in time for our wackiest show in a while. First we catch him up on what he missed in the MMA world while he was gone. It takes about ten seconds. Then we preview this Saturday night's entire UFC...

UFC on Fuel 10: Nogueira vs. Werdum is happening this weekend, and you may not know that because it's the finale show to The Ultimate Fighter Brazil 2 reality show that no one seemed to watch. Fortunately a strong main event and some solid prospects...

UFC 160: Velasquez vs. Bigfoot was a hugely entertaining show that included highlight reel knockouts by Cain Velasquez, Junior Dos Santos, and TJ Grant, and that was just the main card. We recap all of the fights from last weekend and try to...

We're back to basics this week. Greg took off to Australia for a few weeks and we have no interviews or guests on the show for the first time in months, so we're just talking about a bunch of fights.First off, Dave and Steve recap last weekend's...

The UFC returns this weekend with UFC on FX: Belfort vs. Rockhold, live from Brazil. We discuss how the final Strikeforce Middleweight Champion Luke Rockhold will do in his first big test in the big leagues against a legend like Vitor Belfort....

Canadian UFC Fighter Month continues on The Hammer MMA Radio, and this week we're catching up with UFC Middleweight Nick Ring to talk about his recent career, and also about the assault that he stopped last year in Calgary.We also have Las Vegas...

UFC 159: Jones vs. Sonnen is over and done with. Eyes were poked, fingers were bent, and toes were near-severed on a night full of crazy and ridiculous injuries. We recap all of the weirdness in depth, and also wonder where Chael Sonnen can...

UFC 159: Jones vs. Sonnen is coming up this weekend, and while the build-up to the main event is surprisingly lacking in excitement, the rest of the card is still full of interesting fights. One of those fights is Olympic Silver Medalist Sara...

It's a pretty stacked show this week with a couple of great guests. First we catch up with Canadian Featherweight Lyndon Whitlock to discuss the current Ontario fighting scene as well as the unfortunate death of one of our hometown fighters...

This week we have top Canadian Bantamweight Josh Hill on the show for the first time in almost two years. Josh made his name in The Score Fighting Series promotion and is now on his way to Las Vegas to try out for the next season of The Ultimate...

Due to an unfortunate inury to Alexander Gustafsson, this Saturday's show has now been changed to UFC On Fuel 9: Mousasi vs. Latifi. Who is Latifi? We try to figure it out. We also preview the rest of the card including a great looking...

It's kind of a different show this week. As you'd expect we start off with the latest Georges St. Pierre and Nick Diaz wackiness. Yes there's a conspiracy afoot and it involves scales and decimal points. We also talk GSP's new movie role,...

It's our first episode since we returned from UFC 158: St. Pierre vs. Diaz and we have our full recap of the entire card. Also stick around to the end of the episode for Dave's post-fight interviews with UFC 158 fighters Jake Ellenberger, Mike Ricci,...

The Hammer MMA crew were at the UFC 158: St. Pierre vs. Diaz weigh-ins, also known as the Nick Diaz Show. As expected, wackiness ensued, some of which even instigated by our own David Abraham.
Also, this episode has our interviews with UFC 158...

It's been a busy day in Montreal, and we're right in the middle of the build-up to UFC 158: St. Pierre vs. Diaz. In this bonus episode we discuss the Media Workouts featuring all of the main card fighters (except for Nick Diaz of course), as well as...

The Hammer MMA Radio staff are in Montreal for UFC 158: St. Pierre vs. Diaz, and somewhat unexpectedly wound up watching professional athletes practicing some MMA with the owner of Tristar Gym, and Georges St. Pierre's right-hand man, Firas Zahabi.
So...

This episode is a few days early since we're on our way to Montreal for the week to cover UFC 158: St. Pierre vs. Diaz. We run down the entire card, and while that takes up most of the show we also discuss all of the weirdness surrounding the...

UFC On Fuel: Silva vs. Stann was this past weekend in Japan, and while most of the card was kind of hard to watch, the two main fights more than made up for it. We recap all of it, including all of the violence, the boredom, and the horrible...

This week we are joined by former WEC Bantamweight Chad "Savage" George to talk about the fascinating new documentary about his life, "Occupation: Fighter".
Afterwards we spend some time recapping the apparently quite successful UFC 157: Rousey...

We're back to recording the show live after a month or two of studio-hopping. This week we are previewing all of the fights on Saturday night's UFC on Fuel: Barao vs. McDonald, including the first defense of Renan Barao's UFC Interim...

UFC 156: Aldo vs. Edgar was one of those shows full of surprises. There were controversial decisions, incredible upsets, bad karma for Jon Fitch, you name it. We recap the entire night of fights, especially the ramifications of Jose Aldo's...

It's another double-sized episode because the UFC and Bellator keep cranking out fight cards. We start off by previewing this weekend's UFC 156: Aldo vs. Edgar. It's a UFC Featherweight Championship superfight and we can't stop talking...

It's a double-sized episode this week, and we needed it. This Saturday night is UFC On Fox 6: Johnson vs. Dodson. Between the Flyweight Championship Title Fight, Cerrone vs. Pettis, and what may be Rampage Jackson's last fight ever, this...

UFC on FX: Bisping vs. Belfort is this weekend live from Brazil, and while the card is hit or miss, the main event is about as good as you can hope for on free TV. We analyze Michael Bisping vs. Vitor Belfort, as well as most of the fights on...

It's the end of an era. It wasn't always a good era, but Strikeforce is having it's last show ever this weekend, featuring Nate Marquardt, Daniel Cormier, Josh Barnett and Jacare Souza. So we have kind of a wake for the company with a full preview of...

UFC 155: Dos Santos vs. Velasquez was an interesting night of fights that included a new UFC Heavyweight Champion, a fight of the year contender, a few boring fights and some legally blind judges. We run down all of the fights from the main...

It's the last episode of the year, and it's been a pretty quiet one for MMA news. At least we have UFC 155: Dos Santos vs. Velasquez II coming up this weekend, so we spend the whole show previewing the really deep card, most notably the UFC Title...

It's the Third Annual Hammer Awards episode. Pretty much we just choose the winners and losers in categories like Fighter of the Year, Fight of the Year, Submission of the Year and of course, Douchebag of the Year. Check it out.
We also go...

Not only did the UFC put on one of the best fight cards of the year last week in UFC on Fox 5: Henderson vs. Diaz, but they are following it up with two promising Ultimate Fighter finales on this weekend. As a result, our show is going a little long...

The UFC is giving us possibly the best card of the year on free TV this weekend, and we can barely contain our excitment. UFC on Fox 5: Henderson vs. Diaz is full of action-packed fights that we can't agree on at all. Luckily UFC fighter Mark...

It's a packed show this week and we lead off with all of the week's MMA news including yet another Strikeforce disaster, some serious changes to Bellator's matchmaking policies, Thiago Silva's latest drug test failure, and what looks like the...

We are back from Montreal with a full recap of UFC 154: St. Pierre vs. Condit, including highlights from live in the building, the post-fight press conference, and what we learned from conversations with UFC staff and fighters following the...

The Hammer MMA Radio is still down in Montreal, and we've recorded another show following the UFC 154 Open Media Workouts. Check it out for our updated predictions on the fights this weekend, with all of the additional (and sometimes irrelevant)...

We're on site in Montreal for UFC 154: St. Pierre vs. Condit. Check out this episode for our thoughts on the pre-fight press conference, and a batch of fighter interviews including Mark Bocek, John Makdessi, and Mark Hominick.

This week's episode is up a day early, as Dave and Greg are on the way to Montreal for the rest of the week to cover UFC 154: St. Pierre vs. Condit.
On this week's show we preview the entire UFC 154 card, recap last weekend's UFC on Fuel:...

We're gearing up towards UFC 154: St. Pierre vs. Condit in Montreal on November 17th. This week we discuss the UFC 154 Media Conference including the complete audio from the event.
Then we preview this Saturday's UFC on Fuel: Franklin vs. Le,...

UFC fighter and The Ultimate Fighter alumni TJ Dillashaw is on the show this week to talk about his career. Then with no UFC cards this weekend and the Strikeforce show being cancelled, we preview some of the smaller MMA shows including The...

With no major MMA cards this week, and with so much recent talk about Anderson Silva vs. Georges St. Pierre and Jon Jones, we decided to see just how super some of these proposed superfights would actually be.
We also run down all the week's news...

While the current season of The Ultimate Fighter is floundering, things look a lot more interesting for the new year, as Jon "Bones" Jones and Chael Sonnen will be hosting the show and then fighting in the new year. We discuss whether this...

It's MMA overload this week. We start the show previewing UFC 153: Silva vs. Bonnar (yes, that fight is really happening, and we kind of love it), as well as the rest of the card coming live from Brazil this Saturday night.
Then we hit up a...

UFC on FX: Browne vs. Bigfoot is coming up this Saturday, and the main event looks like a pretty violent heavyweight affair. It has a lot to live up to to top last weekend's UFC on Fuel: Struve vs. Miocic though. We discuss both cards in...

UFC 152 is over, and things are getting back to normal. After one final rundown of last Saturday's card, we preview this coming weekend's UFC on Fuel: Struve vs. Miocic from Nottingham, England. We would preview the Strikeforce card on the same...

UFC 152: Jones vs. Belfort is over, and so is our week long coverage of all of the UFC 152 events taking place around Toronto for the past week. Check out this episode for our thoughts on all of the fight results from live in the building, as...

Dave and Steve are still in Toronto covering UFC 152: Jones vs. Belfort. Since the last time they checked in, there's been the UFC 152 pre-fight press conference, and the weigh-ins, as well as a UFC Community event for underpriviledged youths...

Dave and Steve continue their week in Toronto covering UFC 152. This bonus episode covers the UFC 152 Open Workouts, where we got a good look at the fighters and play some highlights from the media including quotes from Brian Stann, Demetrious...

The Hammer MMA Radio is on location all week in Toronto for UFC 152: Jones vs. Belfort. This episode we're previewing the entire UFC 152 card from top to bottom, including both the Light Heavyweight and Flyweight Championship fights.
We also run...

It's another slow news week, and it's mostly bad news. Pretty much the entire main card of UFC 153 in Brazil has fallen apart, so we try to come up with ways to save it.
Also, since a three month onslaught of continuous major MMA events kicks in next...

We're not live in studio this week, and since the UFC 151 show has been cancelled we are just doing a shorter episode to recap all of the week's news.
Topics include Jon "Bones" Jones vs. Twitter, Jose Aldo vs. Frankie Edgar, Jose Aldo vs. A Car, One...

UFC 151 was supposed to happen this Saturday night but it's been cancelled. Or murdered, depending on who you ask. Instead of skipping Episode 108 of our show entirely, we decided to show up and recap the entire sequence of events, and...

Ronda Rousey retained her Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Championship with yet another consecutive first round armbar victory. It's amazing. We discuss the title fight, the future of women's MMA, and the rest of the Strikeforce card from last...

The UFC Lightweight Championship rematch between Ben Henderson and Frankie Edgar at UFC 150 was even closer than their first fight, and may have left just as many questions. Was the fight scored correctly? Who gets the next shot at the...

The UFC 150: Henderson vs. Edgar 2 Pay Per View is this weekend, and if their last fight is any indication then Ben Henderson vs. Frankie Edgar's Lightweight Championship rematch should be an exciting one. We preview all of the fights on the...

It's an extra-long episode of The Hammer MMA Radio this week. We use the extra time to preview UFC on Fox 4 coming up this Saturday, featuring two Light Heavyweight fights that will determine the next number one contender.
We also run down all...

Let's be honest, UFC 149: Faber vs. Barao was a pretty lackluster event. Still there were some highlights, and even the lowlights were kind of interesting failures. We run through the whole card, including all of the preliminary fights,...

UFC 149: Faber vs. Barao is coming up this weekend, and it's not exactly the card that was originally promised. Still, between the UFC Interim Bantamweight Title fight, Hector Lombard's debut, and a heavyweight fight that's sure to be fun, there...

UFC 148: Silva vs. Sonnen 2 is now in the books, and Anderson Silva is still the UFC Middleweight Champion. We analyze the fight, including the wild finishing sequence, and then try to figure out where both of the fighters go from here.
Then we...

Not only is this week our 100th episode, but it's also the biggest MMA event of the year. UFC 148: Silva vs. Sonnen is coming up July 7th, and we dedicate the whole show to previewing the most anticpated rematch in MMA history between Anderson Silva...

Well that was disapointing. Between UFC on FX 4's disapointing main event, and UFC 147's thrown together Brazilian card, the UFC didn't deliver the most exciting double-header last weekend. We spend a lot of this week's show ripping on...

Due to a series of ridiculous circumstances, the UFC is running shows on two consecutive nights this weekend. First there is UFC on FX 4: Maynard vs. Guida on free TV Friday night. Then Saturday night there's UFC 147: Franklin vs. Silva on...

The UFC really is running too many shows lately, but it's hard to complain when the main cards are as action packed as UFC on FX 3: Johnson vs. McCall was. There were great knockouts, submissions, and someone finally advanced to the next round...

This weekend at UFC on FX, it's the rematch of Ian McCall vs. Demetrious Johnson's first-round Flyweight tournament fight, after it was horribly botched the first time in Australia. Luckily their first match was incredible, so it's a battle...

UFC 146: Dos Santos vs. Mir featured an all-heavyweight main card, and didn't fail to deliver violence and exciting finishes. We run down all of the matches from the show, as well as try to put in perspective the current state of the UFC...

We discuss the night of heavyweights - A card that seems somewhat predictable, but a ton of fun.
Also a very TMZ episode of the Hammer as misadventures by Jon Bones Jones and Arianny Celeste make their way through the news cycle.
Check us out live...

Steve is on the road, but joins us by phone for the news, including King Mo's recent career moves.
We review the Chan Sung Jung vs Dustin Poirier fight and go over the rise of the Korean Zombie in another fight of the year contender. We also discuss...

Last weekend's UFC on Fox 3 card was as enjoyable as we predicted. Unfortunately for the UFC, it also did a rating lower than anyone's worst possible estimates. We break down the night of great fights, as well as try to figure out the...

The UFC returns to network television for the third time this Saturday night, with UFC on FOX 3: Diaz vs. Miller. On paper it's an all-action show that shouldn't be missed, so check out our fight picks for every match.
Also, Bellator Lightweight...

Jon "Bones" Jones defended his UFC Light Heavyweight title yet again last weekend at UFC 145, and continues to look unstoppable. We give our thoughts on the fight, including who's next for Jones, as well as all of the rest of the fights from...

UFC 145 is this weekend, and Jon "Bones" Jones vs. his former teammate Rashad Evans is one of the most anticipated fights of the year. Will Evans be the man to finally take the fight to Jones? We break down this match, as well as all of...

The UFC returns after an unprecidented six week hiatus, and it's all the way from Sweden. UFC: Gustafsson vs. Silva is looking like an all-action card on the Fuel network, and we break down all of the fights.
We also continue last week's...

So Alistair Overeem failed his random drug test, and is out of the UFC 146 main event title fight. We go over what we know so far about the situation, including who we think may get the vacant title shot against Junior Dos Santos in May.
We also...

Its another week with no major fight card, but the new Friday Night MMA War continues. First we take a look at Dominick Cruz and Urijah Faber's solid coaching and underwhelming pranks from The Ultimate Fighter Live, then cross the dial to...

The Ultimate Fighter Live and Bellator have been keeping things interesting on Friday nights. On this week's show we're recapping the first Team Cruz vs. Team Faber fight from TUF, as well as the first round of Bellator's middleweight tournament at...

The Ultimate Fighter Live, and Bellator Season 6 both started last Friday night, and brought some serious violence with them. Between the late stoppages, and the hideous toe injury, it gave us a lot to talk about.
There's also some news...

It was a great weekend for two of the most under-appreciated divisions in mixed martial arts. First off, UFC On FX 2: Alves vs. Kampmann featured the first two Flyweight fights in UFC history. The UFC Flyweight Championship tournament had great...

UFC 144: Edgar vs. Henderson had a lot to live up to and it didn't disappoint. There were great knockouts, crazy upsets, and a brand new UFC Lightweight Champion. We review all of the fights from UFC's impressive return to Japan.
There's also a...

It's UFC 144: Edgar vs. Henderson, live from Japan this Saturday night. The event is a stacked 4 hour PPV with a UFC Lightweight Championship fight, Rampage Jackson vs. Ryan Bader, and some of the most promising all out action fights in...

It's been just over a week after Carlos Condit became the new UFC Interim Welterweight Champion, and Diego Sanchez and Jake Ellenberger had a war at UFC on Fuel 1 which may have determined the next title contender. We recap all of the night's...

Well, we expected a hard fought battle in the main event of UFC 143: Diaz vs. Condit, and we got it. Although the real fight seems to be between MMA fans, who are still arguing over the result of new UFC Interm Welterweight Champion Carlos...

It's another week, and another live UFC card. What sets this show apart from the rest is that UFC: Diaz vs. Condit is headlined by an Interim Welterweight Championship fight between two of the most exciting fighters in MMA. We get hugely...

The never-ending string of Zuffa events continues with this Saturday night's UFC on FOX 2: Evans vs. Davis. This is the second time that UFC fights will air on the FOX network, and we break down the three televised match-ups, including two...

UFC 142: Aldo vs. Mendes PPV had everything you could want in a fight card. A hot crowd, crazy knockouts, brutal submissions, cheating, controversy, and one of the best post-fight celebrations in history. We run down all of the matches of...

The UFC returns to Brazil for the second time in six months, this Saturday night. UFC 142: Aldo vs. Mendes looks to make up for a lack of star power with a bunch of high action fights, including a the Featherweight Championship match, and Vitor...

It looks like the Brock Lesnar era is over. After a crushing defeat by Alistair Overeem, the UFC's biggest star announced his retirement following the fight. We look back at Lesnar's career, what this means for Alistair Overeem, and recap...

UFC 141: Lesnar vs. Overeem is coming this Friday night, and it's ending the year in a big way. Brock Lesnar is returning after more than a year away, to face Alistair Overeem, the enormous former champion of Strikeforce, K-1, and Dream. ...

It's our Second Annual Hammer Awards show! We spend a big part of this week's episode discussing our choices for 2011's Best Fight, Best KO, Best Submission, Favorite Fighter, Best Prospect, Worst Fight, Biggest Robbery, and of course, Douchebag...

The Hammer MMA Radio was live in Toronto at UFC 140: Jones vs. Machida, and it was quite the show, including great fights, huge knockouts, broken arms, and the quickest finish in UFC history. We recap all of the matches from the main card and the...

The audio quality's a little rough, but The Hammer MMA Radio was at the UFC 140 Weigh-Ins in Toronto, as well as a Mark Munoz Q&A, and an odd surprise videogame battle between Frankie Edgar and Ben Henderson. We run down the whole card in...

UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre is injured and will be out for a year. We lead off this week's show discussing this unfortunate news, and examining where the UFC goes from here. We also have issues with the newly announced UFC on...

The non-stop run of UFC events continues with The Ultimate Fight Finale: Mayhem vs. Bisping coming up this Saturday night on Spike TV. We analyze the coaches fight, our thoughts on the Featherweights and Bantamweights fighting for a UFC...

Two of the best fights in all of 2011 happened last Saturday night. UFC 139 had an epic Dan Henderson vs. Shogun Rua epic that headlined an amazing card.Not to be outdone, Bellator lightweights Eddie Alvarez and Michael Chandler had a completely...

UFC debuted on the FOX network last Saturday night. Millions and millions of viewers tuned in to watch just over a minute total of action. We run down the pros and cons of the show, including both the American and the international...

The UFC debuts on the FOX network this Saturday night, when Cain Velasquez faces Junior Dos Santos for the UFC Heavyweight title in a free one-hour special that may be the most important MMA fight ever. As you'd expect we spend most of our show...

Last weekend's UFC 137 show was nothing if not eventful. Nick Diaz got his title shot against GSP back, BJ Penn and Mirko Cro Cop say they've retired from MMA, Donald Cerrone put the lightweight division on notice, and Roy Nelson was less fat...

Georges St. Pierre may be injured, but UFC 137: Penn vs. Diaz looks to be a solid show even without a title match. We run down the whole card and make our picks for all of the fights.
There's also a ton of news including Viacom buying Bellator,...

We're joined this week by top Canadian featherweight, Will Romero. We discuss his huge victory at The Score Fighting Series last weekend, his continuing Bellator career, training, rivalries, the current Canadian MMA scene, and more.
Afterwards,...

Frankie Edgar and Jose Aldo proved why they are two of the best pound for pound fighters in the world at UFC 136 last Saturday night, and it was a great night of fights. We run down all of the matches from that show, including Chael Sonnen's...

It's rare that a UFC Championship match is given away on free TV, but The Hammer MMA Radio favorite Dominick Cruz defends his UFC Bantamweight Championship against Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson in the headlining match of a great looking card this...

The Hammer is joined by special guest host Josh Hill!
Josh is one of the rapidly rising stars in the Ontario MMA scene and will share with us some insight about training for MMA, cutting weight and trying out for the Ultimate Fighter.
We also make our...

Greg chose a good week to be in Australia, because UFC Fight Night: Shields vs. Ellenberger is this Saturday night, and it's threatening to be the lowest rated UFC television show in recent memory. At the very least, the rest of us will be...

It's pretty much the biggest MMA news week in a while. Nick Diaz lost his UFC Welterweight title shot for no-showing a press conference. Carlos Condit had the best phone call of his life. Brock Lesnar's returning. Alistair...

It's our seventh special edition of The Hammer MMA Radio, where we review MMA related media and special events seperate from our weekly show. This time we managed to get a sneak preview of the new MMA movie Warrior starring Tom Hardy, Nick...

It was a good night for Brazilian fighters, when Anderson Silva, Shogun Rua, and seemingly every other local fighter on the card brought their A-games at UFC 134. We discuss the card in-depth, including potential Middleweight title contenders, why...

The UFC returns to Brazil this Saturday night for the first time since the 1990s. UFC 134: Silva vs. Okami is full of great matchups including Anderson Silva vs. Yushin Okami, and Shogun Rua vs. Forrest Griffin. We run down all the fights and...

UFC put on a great free TV card with UFC Live 5: Hardy vs. Lytle, and we spend a good part of this week's show sending off Chris Lytle, pondering Dan Hardy's future, and praising the incredible Ben Henderson vs. Jim Miller fight. We discuss the...

UFC 133: Evans vs. Ortiz made chicken salad out of chicken s**t, as Brock Lesnar might say. This card full of injuries and substitutions wound up being pretty damn good. We begin this week's show running down all the great performances,...

UFC 133: Evans vs Ortiz is this Saturday, and we're previewing the whole card, one that's had more than it's share of unfortunate events leading up to it. A rotating main event, a dropped co-main event, and more injuries and substitutions than...

Bellator came to Canada for the first time last week, and The Hammer MMA Radio was there. We recap all the fights, including both featherweight title tournament fights, and the ridiculous Neil Grove vs. Zak Jensen battle. Stick...

With no major cards this week, this is probably our most random show yet. Some of the topics we discuss include the return of Chael Sonnen, drug testing in the big leagues, if UFC Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo should try other weight classes,...

UFC 132: Cruz vs. Faber more than lived up to expectations with an amazing title fight, tons of huge knockouts, new stars being made, and legends returning to greatness. We run down the entire card including all of the great moments, and what's...

UFC 132: Cruz vs. Faber is this Saturday night is looking like one of the most exciting cards of the year. We run down the card and give our picks on the Featherweight Title match, Leben vs. Silva, and fights featuring Carlos Condit, Melvin Guillard,...

There's a new number one contender in the UFC Heavyweight division following UFC 131: Carwin vs. Dos Santos. We give our thoughts on the huge main event, as well as the rest of the mostly entertaining card.Then we preview the upcoming...

The Hammer MMA Radio was at The Score Fighting Series in Mississauga, Ontario this weekend to see fights featuring current Dream Welterweight Champion Mariusz Zaromskis, former UFC fighters Joe Doerkson and Sokoudjou, and rising Canadian star, Jordan...

The big story this week is UFC 131: Dos Santos vs. Carwin, which should have the most hard-hitting main event in years. It's live on PPV this coming weekend, and we run down the card from top to bottom.
We also take a look at last weekend's...

There are two UFC cards for us to discuss this show. First we run down last week's lackluster UFC 130 card, including what's next for Rampage and Frank Mir after winning their fights. Then we preview the upcoming Ultimate Fighter 13...

UFC 130: Jackson vs. Hamill is this Saturday, kicking off a month full of high profile MMA cards. Although this show was plagued with injuries, there are still some interesting matches to predict and discuss, including Mir vs. Nelson and...

It's another week with no major fight cards, but there is a ton of news, including Brock Lesnar's health problems, Jon "Bones" Jone's non-injury, and Brendan Schaub's aggressive career strategy.We also take some time to discuss what's going on in the...

This week we are joined this week by Jerry Langden, the author of the new book "Fighter: The Unauthorized Biography of Georges St. Pierre". We talk to Jerry about his book, GSP, UFC 129, and the sports media industry. Then we discuss this...

It's our review of UFC 129: St. Pierre vs. Shields, which we were fortunate enough to be in attendance for. We run down the results, including how they came across in the live environment.The rest of the show is mostly us arguing about a...

Steve, Greg, and friends are at UFC 129 in Toronto this weekend, and did an on location show from the UFC 129 Fan Expo, Weigh-Ins, and a special first time ever Q&A with all seven current UFC champions.
We run down an entire day of pre-show...

UFC 129 is in Toronto this weekend, and we'll be there. The first major MMA show in Ontario has GSP vs. Jake Shields for the Welterweight title, the first ever UFC Featherweight title fight, Randy Couture's likely retirement match, and a pretty...

With no MMA cards this week, we just go off and argue about a whole bunch of topics, including Nick Diaz and his boxing aspirations, Randy Couture's latest retirement talk, the return of Dream, UFC Rio, Thiago Silva's favorite website, hirings,...

We begin the show by discussing the results from Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Daley, a great show with some big star-making performances. There was a ton of talk that night about UFC/Strikeforce title unification matches, so we give our thoughts on...

The big news this week is Strikeforce's first major show since being purchased by Zuffa (last week's Strikeforce Challengers show doesn't count). It's a good one too, headlined by Nick Diaz vs. Paul Daley, and we discuss the whole main...

The very first MMA show ever in Ontario, Canada was on April 2nd, 2011 and The Hammer MMA Radio was there to cover it. MMA: The Reckoning was headlined by former UFC and WEC stars such as Chris Horodecki and Josh Burkman, and it was a fun...

There's a lot of shows to discuss this week, including UFC: Nogueira vs. Davis, a show where a lot of the best fights were actually shown on their Facebook page before the show. We run down all of the fights, and debate the futures of Phil...

The Jon "Bones" Jones era began this past Saturday at UFC 128, as he finished Shogun Rua to win the UFC Light Heavyweight title. We discuss all of the fights from what turned out to be a pretty great show.Then we run down some news, and...

So the UFC came out of nowhere and announced that they purchased Strikeforce, their biggest competition. And we were complaining last week about a lack of interesting news to discuss. We go over all of the details regarding the sale, and...

We're reviewing three MMA cards from the past week on this episode, including Strikeforce: Henderson vs. Feijao, UFC Live 3, and the season premiere of Bellator. It's a good thing there were so many recent shows, because there's so little...

We start the episode discussing UFC 127: Penn vs. Fitch, a show which gave us a lot to talk about due to the second main event draw this year, as well as controversial fouls and decisions on the undercard.Then we run down this week's news, including...

UFC 127 is airing from Australia this Saturday night, and we discuss the fights that we're looking forward to most, including the BJ Penn vs. Jon Fitch main event.Then we hit up the news of Tito Ortiz's injury, and a ton of Strikeforce news including...

Former UFC Lightweight Champion Sean Sherk joins The Hammer this week for an interview. We ask him about his future, his training, the current state of the lightweight division, and more.We also discuss last weekend's Strikeforce: Fedor...

We start the show off discussing last weekend's UFC 126: Silva vs. Belfort, including the surprise announcement of Jon "Bones" Jones vs. Shogun Rua for the UFC Light Heavyweight title.Then we preview the first night of the Strikeforce Heavyweight...

This weekend brings the long awaited UFC Middleweight title match between Anderson Silva and Vitor Belfort. We preview that fight, as well as the entire stacked UFC 126 card on this week's episode.
Then something rare happens on...

It was a star-making night at UFC: Fight For The Troops last weekend as Melvin Guillard, Matt Mitrione, Mark Hominick, and Matt Wyman all raised their profiles immensely. We run down all of the fights from that night, and what we think is next...

It's UFC's latest Fight For The Troops show, this weekend for free on Spike TV. It's a real fighter's card with a lot of young talent, and we run down the lineup in anticipation.
Then we turn the show over to our listeners, as we...

Brock Lesnar and Junior Dos Santos are the new coaches for The Ultimate Fighter. We discuss whether this is a good idea, and what it holds for the UFC heavyweight division now that Cain Velasquez out of action.Then we get into the UFC...

We start the show with our rundown of UFC 125: Edgar vs. Maynard, including the main event which went to a draw and left Anthony Pettis out in the cold.There's also a ton of news to discuss, including a serious injury to Cain Velasquez, Chael Sonnen's...

UFC 125: Edgar vs. Maynard is happening on New Years Day, and we give our thoughts on what to expect from the first MMA show of 2011.
We also hit up some news including what's up with Chuck Liddell, Dominick Cruz, Mirko Cro Cop, and...

It's our "Best And Worst of 2010" show. The three of us debate our picks in categories including Best KO, Best Submission, Fight of the Year, Least Favorite Fighter, Worst Fight, Biggest Robbery, and more.
Also we recap the events of...

Georges St. Pierre destroyed challenger Josh Koscheck last weekend, and we're here to survey the damage and see where the fighters go from this point forth.
Also, tons of discussion on UFC in Toronto, potential Ultimate Fighter coaches...

There's so much going on that we had to do a double-sized episode to contain it, and we start with our preview of UFC 124: St. Pierre vs. Koscheck.
Other topics include The Ultimate Fighter Finale, Strikeforce: St. Louis, UFC 124...

UFC and Strikeforce are going head-to-head this Saturday night. It's The Ultimate Fighter 12 Finale and Strikeforce: St. Louis both on Dec. 4th. Which card looks more promising?
Then the show turns into a kind of "State of...

We begin the show by recapping last weekend's UFC 123: Rampage vs. Machida, and debating what the big wins for Rampage, Penn, and Sotiropolous means for them now. Plus, which fighters were cut from the UFC in the aftermath?
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There are a ton of shows to cover this week. First off, we preview the upcoming UFC 123: Rampage vs. Machida PPV, giving our fight picks and predictions for the entire card.
Then we quickly look back on last week's UFC 122 and WEC 52...

It's a double-preview show this week, as we discuss the upcoming UFC 122: Marquardt vs. Okami, and WEC 52: Faber vs. Mizugaki shows. There's not a ton of hype for these cards, but the main events will mean big things for the future of the UFC...

There are no major fight cards this week, but that doesn't mean there's nothing to talk about. Our favorite promotion, WEC, is merging with the UFC, so we get into a lengthy discussion about what this means for the future of the UFC.
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It's the third of our bonus shows where we review MMA products from other types of media.
This time, Dave and Steve (and eventually Greg), discuss the EA MMA video game for Xbox 360 and PS3. We run down the features, how it...

We start the show by running down last weekend's UFC 121: Lesnar vs. Velasquez. Discussion includes what's next for Brock and Cain, whether Shields deserve a title shot, and if it's time for Tito to retire or not.
Also, there's news on...